Exposition « Estado de excepción » de Joaquin Segura à l’Espacio Minimo

Espacio Mínimo gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Spain of Mexican artist JOAQUÍN SEGURA. Mexican curator Mariana David writes the following about the selection of works that conform the show:

« And it doesn’t matter which are the moral boundaries or the conventions that need to be broken, if it is necessary to shatter the order as to show a nebulous part of the human imagination, to do it is almost an obligation », Guillermo Fadanelli (« El arte de la insolencia ». Día Siete no.48, 2009, Ciudad de México, p. 21. Reflections on the work of Joaquín Segura).

The present global scenario has citizens worldwide concerned about the economic policies that keep on restricting civil rights everywhere while devastating life in the planet at the same time. Images of gunfights and bombings in the news are placed among endless advertising urging you to buy a car or bifidus yoghurt. While walking the street of cities severely affected by unemployment, like Madrid, one questions oneself: Where are people getting money from to keep on consuming? This happens in Spain, Mexico and Jakarta, crisis it is not exclusive of any particular country. Each nation’s problems are intrinsically tied to the interests of hegemonic power that knows no frontiers. This is why Joaquín Segura considers nostalgic to talk about national identity, and refers to the concept of post-nation as a branding process that aims to create a false idea of integration.

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